I know how much I should be getting but are there any guidelines to follow as to when you eat it? All I've ever heard is not to eat alot of carb before sleep.

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I'm kind of interestd in this, right now I keep my carbs and fat moderate/low and protein high, and try to eat my carbs in the morning. I'd love more specific info, but everytime I go looking I find some mixed opinions or someone trying to sell me something.

There isn't a definite answer to that question. I think the best thing to do is to began with a 40/30/30 ratio and then judge by how you feel and by how much progress are you making.
I think you just have to make sure you get plenty of protein (at least 1-1.5 per lb of bodyweight), and to play around with the amount of carb/fat you take. If you don't do well on carb, just get more fat. Taking the bus is good to assess this IMO : I found out that whenever I get over 250g of carbs a day, I feel my stomach moving as if I were fat when the bus ran into a whole (sorry if it's not clear, that's hard to tell this when English isn't your first language!) so that meant that I was a bit too bloated.

I think there are two times our carb sensitiveness is best : during/after a workout and after a low-carb diet, during those times, there's a greater amount of carb that goes into the muscles. That means that there's a greater glycogen replenishement (or whatever it's called) and I would think it's also a great time for muscle to grow. The amount of glycogen in the muscles can be a lot greater after a low-carb diet (because there's much less glycogen in the muscles) and there's a supramaximal glycogen level after that. I think this is called carb loading and it's useful before a competition.

The best thing you can do is try out some isocaloric diets with different macro breakdown.

Well, I guess I didn't really read it.
The second part of my post adress the carb timing issue though.
Protein should be taking often because the only protein store we have is muscle and we can't use muscle to get more muscle...
Fat can be used with any meal to slower the absorption rate of the meal which is good against both catabolism and feeling hungry.